Advocacy and Communication Coordinator at Danish Refugee Council 113 views0 applications


BACKGROUND

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. In Uganda, the DRC programme provides comprehensive assistance and protection to refugees and other vulnerable populations, supports durable solutions to protracted displacement and works to reduce armed violence

All projects implemented by DRC are monitored / evaluated in accordance to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning policy

About ECHO Project

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is presently leading a Consortium of four NGOs (DRC, LWF, Windle Trust Uganda and REACH) which has been selected to implement a program in West Nile to provide lifesaving and sustainable WASH, livelihoods and education services to South Sudanese refugees and surrounding host communities. The Consortium is implementing a 1-year project funded under the European Commission, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations – ECHO, to respond to refugee settlements and host communities in West Nile of Uganda.

Purpose

The role of the Communications and Advocacy Coordinator is to lead the team in delivering vital information and communication that enable excellent media and fundraising activities for the Uganda Country Office and Consortium partners. He/she will be responsible for implementing a comprehensive media, advocacy and communications strategy, ensuring smooth flow of information, good relations with high profile visitors and the media, and high-quality reporting to showcase DRC Uganda’s activities and achievements. Additionally, the Advocacy, Communications and Media Manager will work closely with the Regional Office in Nairobi to ensure that external messaging and image are

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Media And Communications
  2. Implement communication activities including facilitating media visits and working within incoming media and communications surge support during emergencies
  3. Ensure that the branding and communication guidelines of DRC are uniformly and consistently followed across the Uganda Country Office
  4. Proactively develop a high profile for DRC Uganda through the production of high quality, well researched and well written products (in a variety of mediums) reflective of the dual mandate portfolio, responding quickly and appropriately to external requests for information, especially in emergencies.
  5. Develop and deliver a clear and effective system for internal communications including the dissemination of newsletters and other documents and publications for stakeholders.
    2. Advocacy
  6. Lead the development of an advocacy strategy for the Uganda Country Office and Consortiums led by DRC.
  7. Support programme leadership to articulate their top priority advocacy objectives in line with the CO Results Contract and regional advocacy and communication strategy.
  8. Identify key opportunities and events for DRC Uganda to position itself as the leading organization for refugee and solutions programming issues in Uganda.
  9. Ensure that DRC receives national recognition for achieving proven and innovative national impact from well-managed solutions programmes and emergency response.
  10. Support country management and other programme staff in their work, including development of a plan for achieving their priority advocacy objectives in both an emergency and development context. This should include guidelines on the meaningful and safe participation of beneficiaries in advocacy and communications.
  11. Be an active member of the Advocacy platforms and appropriate forums.
  12. Initiating and supporting materials to achieve common advocacy goals
  13. Work closely with the Regional Advocacy and Communications team in delivering materials, formulating policies, providing regular taking points, briefings and updates and helping to plan and support DRC representation at major national and international events

ABOUT YOU

The desired candidate must be able to conceptualize and articulate DRC vision and have the strong oral and written communication skill required to translate the vision into tangible action. The incumbent is expected to have extensive donor, government and partner engagement experiences.

Experience and understanding of refugee and displacement issues is an advantage and ideally the candidate will have a good understanding of the region.

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate each of DRC’ five core competencies:

  1. Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results in a fast paced environment
  2. Collaborating: You lead initiatives and processes by involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.

iii. Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while setting high standards

  1. Communicating: You listen to other stakeholders and staff; and you communicate concisely and persuasively
  2. Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with DRC’s vision and values.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum of 5 years in management experience in a media or an NGO environment, with experience in successfully leading the development and implementation of communication and campaign strategies for an international humanitarian organisation, preferably in the region
  • Previous experience working with national and international media, ideally in a similar strategic role
  • Experience of leading communication activities in refugee context
  • Experiencing building a media network and excellent digital and social media skills and understanding of how it can be used to further our work
  • Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
  • Experience of building personal networks, resulting in securing significant new opportunities for the organization
  • Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work with limited supervision
  • Proactive, stable and robust character and a good team player.
  • Excellent communication skills, calm and a good sense of humor.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations at all levels.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

GENERAL

Commitments:

DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework into the work of DRC

CONDITIONS

Availability: Immediately

Duty station: Kampala-Uganda with frequent travel to field locations (50%)

Reporting: Head of Programs and ECHO consortium manager.

Contract: 1 year contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of National staff.

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The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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0 USD Kampala CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

BACKGROUND

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. In Uganda, the DRC programme provides comprehensive assistance and protection to refugees and other vulnerable populations, supports durable solutions to protracted displacement and works to reduce armed violence

All projects implemented by DRC are monitored / evaluated in accordance to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning policy

About ECHO Project

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is presently leading a Consortium of four NGOs (DRC, LWF, Windle Trust Uganda and REACH) which has been selected to implement a program in West Nile to provide lifesaving and sustainable WASH, livelihoods and education services to South Sudanese refugees and surrounding host communities. The Consortium is implementing a 1-year project funded under the European Commission, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations – ECHO, to respond to refugee settlements and host communities in West Nile of Uganda.

Purpose

The role of the Communications and Advocacy Coordinator is to lead the team in delivering vital information and communication that enable excellent media and fundraising activities for the Uganda Country Office and Consortium partners. He/she will be responsible for implementing a comprehensive media, advocacy and communications strategy, ensuring smooth flow of information, good relations with high profile visitors and the media, and high-quality reporting to showcase DRC Uganda’s activities and achievements. Additionally, the Advocacy, Communications and Media Manager will work closely with the Regional Office in Nairobi to ensure that external messaging and image are

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Media And Communications
  2. Implement communication activities including facilitating media visits and working within incoming media and communications surge support during emergencies
  3. Ensure that the branding and communication guidelines of DRC are uniformly and consistently followed across the Uganda Country Office
  4. Proactively develop a high profile for DRC Uganda through the production of high quality, well researched and well written products (in a variety of mediums) reflective of the dual mandate portfolio, responding quickly and appropriately to external requests for information, especially in emergencies.
  5. Develop and deliver a clear and effective system for internal communications including the dissemination of newsletters and other documents and publications for stakeholders. 2. Advocacy
  6. Lead the development of an advocacy strategy for the Uganda Country Office and Consortiums led by DRC.
  7. Support programme leadership to articulate their top priority advocacy objectives in line with the CO Results Contract and regional advocacy and communication strategy.
  8. Identify key opportunities and events for DRC Uganda to position itself as the leading organization for refugee and solutions programming issues in Uganda.
  9. Ensure that DRC receives national recognition for achieving proven and innovative national impact from well-managed solutions programmes and emergency response.
  10. Support country management and other programme staff in their work, including development of a plan for achieving their priority advocacy objectives in both an emergency and development context. This should include guidelines on the meaningful and safe participation of beneficiaries in advocacy and communications.
  11. Be an active member of the Advocacy platforms and appropriate forums.
  12. Initiating and supporting materials to achieve common advocacy goals
  13. Work closely with the Regional Advocacy and Communications team in delivering materials, formulating policies, providing regular taking points, briefings and updates and helping to plan and support DRC representation at major national and international events

ABOUT YOU

The desired candidate must be able to conceptualize and articulate DRC vision and have the strong oral and written communication skill required to translate the vision into tangible action. The incumbent is expected to have extensive donor, government and partner engagement experiences.

Experience and understanding of refugee and displacement issues is an advantage and ideally the candidate will have a good understanding of the region.

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate each of DRC’ five core competencies:

  1. Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results in a fast paced environment
  2. Collaborating: You lead initiatives and processes by involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.

iii. Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while setting high standards

  1. Communicating: You listen to other stakeholders and staff; and you communicate concisely and persuasively
  2. Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with DRC’s vision and values.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum of 5 years in management experience in a media or an NGO environment, with experience in successfully leading the development and implementation of communication and campaign strategies for an international humanitarian organisation, preferably in the region
  • Previous experience working with national and international media, ideally in a similar strategic role
  • Experience of leading communication activities in refugee context
  • Experiencing building a media network and excellent digital and social media skills and understanding of how it can be used to further our work
  • Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
  • Experience of building personal networks, resulting in securing significant new opportunities for the organization
  • Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work with limited supervision
  • Proactive, stable and robust character and a good team player.
  • Excellent communication skills, calm and a good sense of humor.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations at all levels.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

GENERAL

Commitments:

DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework into the work of DRC

CONDITIONS

Availability: Immediately

Duty station: Kampala-Uganda with frequent travel to field locations (50%)

Reporting: Head of Programs and ECHO consortium manager.

Contract: 1 year contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of National staff.

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